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The TSA Now Has a More Private Body Scanner

A modest proposal to give us something we rarely get back in the digital age: our privacy.

The first time an airline worker stared at my naked body on a scanner, it freaked me out. I'm not a modest person, nor one to get particularly riled up about privacy. I knew the employee staring at me was in another room, and I knew other passengers couldn't see me. Still, I'd seen the pictures—they left nothing to the imagination.

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